Andrea Mariconti

Andrea Mariconti was born in Italy in 1978. He lives and works between Cremona and Milan (Italy).
Graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, major in visual arts and scenography, he has been appointed assistant professor at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) of Milan. Between 2005 and 2006 he has been in Kosovo teaching art therapy to childs victims of war traumas and he has been teacher to a disabled students school of drama. In 2005 he attend to an Anselm Kiefer workshop, during the setting up of the Seven Heavenly Palaces at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan. Since from 2009 he has conducted a wide range of experience of laboratories in the social health sector, in Italy and South Africa (orphans, psychiatry, oncology, kids with relation problems). In 2011 he wins the Best of Show at the UNESCO International Bioethics Art Prize. In 2015 he conducted a project for the Universal Exposition Fair hosted in Milan, Italy, focusing on a new dynamic experience about the Diocesano Museum in Milan (Kanon Mouseion). Since the first exhibition in 2003 he is represented in the most important International art fairs (Basel, Tai Pei, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg).
He works with natural materials (ashes – wax – copper – bronze – petroil – raw soil ), the only colour he uses in his paintings is ‘white’. His work is about exploration of materials, their expressive and conceptual properties and their transmutation.

Andrea Mariconti

Andrea Mariconti was born in Italy in 1978. He lives and works between Cremona and Milan (Italy).
Graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, major in visual arts and scenography, he has been appointed assistant professor at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) of Milan. Between 2005 and 2006 he has been in Kosovo teaching art therapy to childs victims of war traumas and he has been teacher to a disabled students school of drama. In 2005 he attend to an Anselm Kiefer workshop, during the setting up of the Seven Heavenly Palaces at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan. Since from 2009 he has conducted a wide range of experience of laboratories in the social health sector, in Italy and South Africa (orphans, psychiatry, oncology, kids with relation problems). In 2011 he wins the Best of Show at the UNESCO International Bioethics Art Prize. In 2015 he conducted a project for the Universal Exposition Fair hosted in Milan, Italy, focusing on a new dynamic experience about the Diocesano Museum in Milan (Kanon Mouseion). Since the first exhibition in 2003 he is represented in the most important International art fairs (Basel, Tai Pei, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg).
He works with natural materials (ashes – wax – copper – bronze – petroil – raw soil ), the only colour he uses in his paintings is ‘white’. His work is about exploration of materials, their expressive and conceptual properties and their transmutation.

Andrea Mariconti’s artistic talent grows out of a silent and attentive capacity of observing nature and humanity.
Developing the old technique of painting with poor materials, Mariconti finds his way of expression by using personal melanges – carefully studied and experimented over the years – of oil painting, ashes, earth and plants extracts.
His paintings tend to dichromatism and his sapient use of chiaroscuro adds the perfect layer of shadows making the atmosphere mysterious and fascinating. His use of dropping, folding and mixing materials with such different textures, give to his work a tridimensional effect and simultaneously a surrealist feeling like if you would be trying to reconstruct a an old memory in details, without achieving its totality. His brush stroke as much as the textures of his self-made colors give to his paintings a sort of impressionist value, confirmed by the certainty of recognizable subjects. Main theme behind his works is the fragility of both landscapes and humanity. Being in permanent transformation, by stocking them on canvas Mariconti gives to those instants, to those blinks of reality, a fix point, projecting them to immortality.